BSkyB: investigation into alleged abuse of a dominant position

Decision of the Office of Fair Trading under section 47 relating to decision CA98/20/2002: alleged infringement of the Chapter II prohibition by BSkyB.

No. CA98/20/2002

On 17 December 2002, the Director General of Fair Trading, following
investigation under the Competition Act 1998, decided that there were
insufficient grounds to find that British Sky Broadcasting Limited had
abused a dominant position by exercising a margin squeeze on
distributors of its premium channels, or by offering those channels in
mixed bundles, and that it had not infringed the Chapter II prohibition
by offering certain discounts with regards to those premium channels.

The Office of Fair Trading, which succeeded the Director General of Fair
Trading on 1 April 2003, rejected two applications to vary that
decision.